Reporting on the retirement of Justice Kennedy, Nina Totenberg quoted R.E.M. “. . . it’s the end of the world as we know it”. Although rumors had been circulating for over a year most Court-watchers figured Kennedy would hold off…
Tag: Justice Kagan
End of SCOTUS Term . . . and the World As We Know It
Tagged with: Chief Justice Roberts, Janus, Justice Alito, Justice Breyer, Justice Kagan, Justice Kennedy, Justice Sotomayor, Trump
Sketches From This Week’s Added Opinion Days
Monday on the Supreme Court plaza was sizzling hot, Friday was not. In fact now, on the other side of the solstice, it’s drizzling and mild. Into the home stretch now, the Court is adding opinion days to its regular…
Trinity Lutheran Sketches
I thought the Court’s newest justice would have a lot to say during arguments in the church-state separation case, Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, heard yesterday. But Justice Gorsuch asked no questions until the very end, and then nothing very…
Tagged with: First Amendment, Justice Alito, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kagan, Trinity Lutheran
Top Of The Ninth? Spider-Man & California Raisins
Four decisions from the Supreme Court today included an opinion, Kimble v. Marvel, that quoted Spider-Man creators Stan Lee & Steve Ditko (Amazing Fantasy, No.15, “Spider-Man”, 1962), and a takings case, Horne v. Department of Agriculture, brought by California raisin…
Who Gets A Felon’s Guns ?
It was bitterly cold outside the Supreme Court this morning which may explain why there were fewer spectators than usual for today’s arguments. These sketches are of the first argument, Henderson v. U.S., concerning a felon’s attempt to transfer ownership…
The Ambiguous Pregnancy Discrimination Act
United Parcel Service came to the Supreme Court this morning to argue that it is pregnancy-blind, that it treats expectant female employees the same as any other employee injured off the job. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act 1978 says, “. . women…
Three Opinions Today . . .
. . . thirteen yet to come (counting the two cell-phone search cases as one). In Argentina v. NML Capital the Court sided with investors seeking to locate Argentina’s overseas assets in order to collect on bonds that went into…
The 35 Foot Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone . . .
. . . and the considerably larger Supreme Court chamber.A challenge to the Massachusetts law creating a 35 foot buffer zone around the entrance to abortion clinics, McCullen v. Coakley, was argued before the Supreme Court today. The last time…
Kagan’s Roundup Ready and Breyer’s in a Sling
A couple sketches from the Supreme Court yesterday: Justice Kagan annouced the Court’s unanimous opinion supporting Monsanto’s patent rights on its herbicide resistant genetically altered Roundup Ready seed. NYT’s Adam Liptak has the story here. It was also Justice Breyer’s first…
Violent Videos and Arizona Campaign Finance
Citing Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Homer and Dante, as well as Golding’s Lord of the Flies, in his opinion for the majority Justice Scalia said that violent speech, in this case video games, even when directed at children is still protected…
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